Exploratory Visits
The Shoah Memorial proposes a new device on the sites of Paris and Drancy.
Students discover a unique theme in two stages:
duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
- The exploration of a subject during a commissioning
duration: 1 hour 15 minutes
PROPOSED TOPICS
The Nazi worldview
For students from 9th to 12th grade
This activity focuses on the victims of Nazi persecution.
Themes: Nazism, anti-Gypsyism, homophobia, antisemitism, T4 operation, political opponents, resistance.
Historical period: WWII.
Supports: Archival documents, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial. Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups, then restitution.
Lights in the night: itineraries of Righteous Among the Nations – new
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Resistance, commitments, rescue, risks, memories.
Historical period: WWII.
Supports: Excerpts from books, archival documents, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity: in the guided discussion room, question-and-answer game about the journeys of the European Just and group restitution.
There were 13,000: the Vel d'Hiv route – a new development
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Vel d'Hiv, roundup, memoirs, Justes de France, deportations, hidden children.
Historical periods: World War II, history of the present time.
Media: Photographs, letters, administrative documents, video clips, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity: in the room Discovery and analysis of documents in small groups then restitution.
Beate and Serge Klarsfeld: the fighters of memory – new
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: History, memoirs, justice, microhistory, postwar Germany.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Supports: Family and administrative archives, testimonies, video extracts.
Activity: in the discovery room, document analysis in small groups, then restitution.
Images of the Holocaust on screen
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Representation of the genocide, testimony, cinematic language (animation, documentary, fiction film).
Media: Film clips, press articles, permanent exhibition of the Shoah Memorial.
Activity in the theater Analysis of film clips.
Genocides and places of memory
For 12th grade students
Themes: Recognition and memories of the Holocaust, the genocides of the Gypsies, the Armenians and the Tutsis.
Historical period: 20th century.
Supports: The places of memory of the Shoah Memorial, photographs, press articles.
Activity: in the discovery room, document analysis in small groups, then restitution.
The end of the Holocaust and the Nazi concentration camp universe. Surviving, testifying, judging (1944-1948) – CNRD / NEW
From January 2026
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Testimonies, justice, memories, camps, genocide, crimes against humanity.
Media: Archival documents, written, audio and visual testimonies, trials.
Activity: in the discovery room, document analysis in small groups, then restitution.
Words about one’s ills: a literary journey – something new
From December 1, 2025
For students from 9th to 12th grade
Themes: Literature, Jewish cultures, antisemitism, Auschwitz-Birkenau, resistance, memoirs.
Historical periods: World War II, contemporary history.
Supports: Literary excerpts (Joseph Joffo, Aharon Appelfeld, Charlotte Delbo...), testimonies, sound clips, archives (photographs, administrative documents).
Activity: in the classroom Corpus of texts given to each student, reading and analysis in the permanent exhibition.
